Picking out colours that suit you well and help you make the most of your wardrobe can indeed be a tricky affair. Here’s our guide to four essential things to consider before you buy your next shirt.
Live by the Season
The best way to pick colours that look great on you is to go by the season. Summers are perfect for cool blues, whites, creams, and assorted pastel shades. Indian summers are the perfect time to bring out your mint green, cool turquoise, baby blue and daffodil yellow shirts. If it’s an ethnic occasion consider kurtas in coral, or light orange to brighten up your day. Winters are perfect for darker colours that seem to be made for wool. Maroons and navy blues, dark greens, and charming reds (a must for the Christmas season) seem just right in winter.
Make them Pop
This is the easiest way to choose colours that suit you. Go by your best features. Your skin tone, for example, is a great guide. If your skin is cool-tones you're likely to look great in deep shades such as ruby and rose, cobalt blue and indigo, and rich emerald or moss green. Pure white, slate grey, and navy-blue suits look best on you.
If your skin is of a warm tone shade, you may want to experiment with corals, browns, olive greens and different shades of rust or teal. Off-white, cream, rich brown suits look best on you. You may also want to experiment and try different colours to find which makes your eyes pop or highlights your hair colour.
Occasion is King
One great guide to dressing is to go by the occasion. Indian weddings call for bright, bold colours. Look for rich maroons, lime greens, purples, and deep yellows. Your sherwanis and kurta could be contrasted with the pants and dhotis that you wear. Look for bright ethnic embroidery that never goes out of fashion. More somber occasions may call for whites, creams, and greys. Formal work calls for a cream, rich grey, and navy-blue pinstripe suit to be part of your wardrobe. If you buy formal shirts online, look for light colours that will go fabulously well with these jackets. Pick a tie in a darker shade of the same colour.
Match your moods
Can you imagine feeling really low and wearing a bright orange cardigan? Your moods play an important role in deciding what colour you’d like to wear but it is also good to remember that the clothes you wear influence your moods. The next time you go online shopping for denim shirts try being adventurous. Replace your charcoal grey with a light blue. This way when you reach out for a comfortable denim shirt when you’re feeling low, you will wear something that helps lift your spirits.
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